The Paint Marks the Place: The Mural Art of Resistance in Oakland, California

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dc.contributor.advisorBain, Alison
dc.creatorHashim, Narmeen Shoukat
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-26T15:30:24Z
dc.date.available2017-07-26T15:30:24Z
dc.date.copyright2016-09-16
dc.date.issued2017-07-26
dc.date.updated2017-07-26T15:30:24Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractIn the context of both historical and current urban redevelopment schemes in Oakland, California that displace black, brown, and indigenous peoples, businesses, and communities, I examine the work of mural artists and activists to resist erasure and mark belonging. Specifically, this research explores the relationship between the practice of intentional community mural-making, projecting narratives of culture and resistance, and geographic concepts of place-making, and sense of belonging. The research was conducted through a critical feminist anti-colonial methodological process of artography. Through semi-structured in-depth interviews with artists, residents, and community activists, photography, archival media analysis and a case study of the Madre Maize (2012) mural by the Community Rejuvenation Project crew, I uncover how the process of mural-making is a means of place-making by allowing some of the most societally marginalized to author the landscapes in which they dwell, work, and live. This thesis argues that intentional community mural art is a means of counter monument, community justice, and an act of decolonization through embedding a decolonial aesthetic in the fabric of urban landscapes, uncovering hidden black, brown, and indigenous geographies and contributing to larger movements of social justice making.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33343
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSocial research
dc.subject.keywordsOakland
dc.subject.keywordsArtography
dc.subject.keywordsPublic art
dc.subject.keywordsMural art
dc.subject.keywordsPlace-making
dc.subject.keywordsResistance
dc.subject.keywordsDecolonial aesthetic
dc.titleThe Paint Marks the Place: The Mural Art of Resistance in Oakland, California
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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